Lima 🐈

• Lima is my (class-based) rewrite of React (at least it's basic API)
  • React's implementation notes served as a guide: https://reactjs.org/docs/implementation-notes.html
  • I wrote this as an attempt to better understand what goes on under the hood.
  • ...and named it after my foster cat

Files

• example application using Lima in /example/src
• rewrite lives in /src

Install

• to run example app, run cd example; npm install; npm start
• to play around with Lima in your project, run npm install lima-react --save
• see example app for build requirements (webpack / babel / jsx transpile, etc)

Features

• Lima's API is slightly different from React:
  • You can only write class components that extend the Lima.Component base class (for simplicity)
  • Lima requires you to "initialize" your components before RenderDOM is invoked For each component, you have to pass a self reference to super in the constructor (to keep track of instances internally as the jsx transpiler loses track of the class references)
  • Lima can't handle self-closing tags on native elements, like input etc. so make sure you explicitly close these tags, ie...

Other & WIP

• If I find the time, include an implementation of react-router and redux
• However, that would require a context api which is another todo